Bomb threats made at high schools have consequences

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MILWAUKEE -- Following a series of bomb threats at area high schools in recent weeks -- including two separate incidents on Tuesday (one in Racine and another in Grafton), school leaders are stressing that there are consequences for students who make these threats. Officials say bomb threats are disruptive, and practical joke or not, the threats cost money and haunt some students for the rest of their lives.

"You might be creating a situation where you think it's a day off of school and it is the appropriate thing to do. That's not the way it's going to end up," Franklin School District. Superintendent Dr. Steve Patz said.

Dr. Patz says his district knows all too well what schools like Greendale, Racine Park and Grafton are dealing with.

"I don't think kids look at how much of an impact it has across an entire district. We have a lot of employees -- like our food service employees, transportation -- all of a sudden they're missing a day's work," Dr. Patz said.

"Unfortunately, too many school districts are put in those positions too often. It's one of those things that you just don't have an answer to in terms of how to deal with it because you never know what kind of a student would do something like that and what their thinking is," Dr. Patz said.

Franklin was one of four schools that dealt with bomb threats between March 2nd and April 3rd.